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    1. Re: [FHU] References
    2. Lorna Craig via
    3. As soon as you start adding media as evidence you have to start multiplying either the number of sources or the number of citations per source. Mike has referred you to the discussions in FHUG about Method 1 (many sources, few citations per source, with media attached to the source record) versus Method 2 (few sources, many citations per source, with media attached to the citations). It is worth emphasising that many people use a combination of these methods. For example you could continue to use 'Find my Past - Parish Records' as a source when you do not have an image of the original document. This source would have many citations. Each time you collect an image you can then create a new separate source for the appropriate record, link the image, via a multimedia record, to the source, and cite the new source instead of the older generic source. When creating the new source I record the website from which I obtained it in the 'Publication Information' field and the physical location of the original document (e.g. London Metropolitan Archives) in the 'Repository' field. Using this combination of methods I currently have 2265 source records, most of which have only a handful of citations but a few of which (without any images) have several hundred citations. This is in a file with just over 5000 individuals. Lorna On 01/01/2016 12:53, Jeremy via wrote: > I used to show, say, 'Find my Past - Parish Records' as the source for > entries. Now I am finding that I can get the actual detail of the > marriage as a .pdf which I could attach to the citation. However, I would > need each citation to be a separate entry in order to attach an image to > it. My question is that would mean about 3000 individual entries in my > case. Is this normal/average? or excessive? >

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